ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York taxpayers paid more than $5 million in the last two years to settle more than a dozen sexual harassment cases against state workers, according to records obtained Thursday.
The cases include $1.79 million paid to a woman who worked for the state prisons system in western New York. The incident reported in 2000 was settled in 2009, with $1.1 million of the payout going to attorney fees, according to the first batch of records provided to The Associated Press under the state Freedom of Information Law.
Payouts in cases identified in records so far against state employees begin at $125,000.
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